For those of you not familiar with the church calendar, Advent is the season that leads up to Christmas. Advent is a time of waiting. A...

I know I haven't posted which books I read over the summer. I promise you they were vast and varied, and I didn't write them down. One of...

Let me be clear, I am no where near retirement, but I am closer to it than I have ever been. Unlike 31 years ago when I walked into my...

I have a pet peeve. And it's silly how much it annoys me.It shouldn't, but it could so easily be remedied that it makes me mad that it...

"The Anthropocene is a proposed term for the current geological age, in which humans have profoundly reshaped the planet and its...

My daughter punctuates all of her text messages with exclamation points. For some odd reason, this makes me feel good. Great, actually....

Our flight was cancelled last month as we tried to make our way back home from Orlando (another blog for another day), and the hotel we...

I've been spending a lot of time lately in the car on long drives (think 7 hours each way, 22 hours each way-- you get the picture). Most...

We are going to Disney World next week for our annual family vacation...to Disney World. It's the same family vacation we did last year,...

Let me set the scene: Stephen King’s 65 th novel is about to be released. You liked the first 49, were a little discouraged with 50-53,...

I take pleasure in the small things. Little things truly do make me happy. There's nothing better than getting a refill of fountain soda...

I discovered Heather Gudenkauf about five years ago. And then as usually happens with me, author names got out of my brain as do titles,...

The Last House on the Street by Diane Chamberlain is southern fiction thick in the historical civil rights era. It is about chances...

I freely give up the first 2 attempts at Wordle in order to gain my footing. I start always with MOUSE (a tribute to Mickey). It's a...

There's nothing that makes me happier in the winter than watching the clock turn to 9pm and knowing that I can go to bed. The darkness is...

Jane Eyre is by far my favorite novel. It is the one I come back to and reread every summer, lingering over the lines and the sweeping...

It's 2022. I need to let that sink in. It's 2022. I can vividly remember being downstairs in our rumpus room (aptly named by my husband...

I met Daniel Mitchell many years ago during my MFA program. It was evident to me then, listening to his works in progress, that he was...

Dear friends, I cannot thank you enough for your outpouring of support over this past week for my debut novel Threshing of Straw. I...

Almost a decade ago a character came into my mind—a little 9 year-old African-American girl from Georgia—Macey May Johnson. She refused...